Tag: Java
In the past few month several Java EE 6 related JSRs (Java Specification Requests) have been finalized. The final ballot for them ended on November 30 and all were …
Vorige week was in San Francisco het hoogtepunt van het Oracle jaar: Oracle Open World 2009, de grootste IT conferentie ter wereld. Tijdens deze conferentie ontvouwde Oracle haar strategie …
James Gosling, the “father of Java”, is the hero, the star, the god of many Java conferences such as JavaOne. I have seen the adoration and worship, as …
This very brief article will demonstrate a very useful feature of Java 6 Standard Edition – that means: the Java as it is running in any stand-alone application. …
As JavaOne – preceded by CommunityOne which kicks off tomorrow morning – is approaching fast, this might be a good moment to discuss some of the early rumours, the …
In this article, we will continue a discussion on asynchronous processing started in a previous article that introduced asynchronous and parallel processing Java using Executors, Futures, Callable Objects …
Processors are not going to get much faster. No higher clockspeeds are foreseen. The speed of processing will be further increasing through parallellization, engaging multiple CPU cores for …
When developing an application it makes sense to add logging to this application. The Apache Commons Logging is a way to implement logging to your application independent of the …
Echo2… oh no, naf! (not another framework). I just want java, not some tricky framework I have to learn into depth before being productive. Ok, then you’re up to …
Yesterday I was given a new assignment. Of a certain system all development was stopped a month ago. The latest version, deployed and tested on the test environment, will …
Last Monday I was attending a presentation of Brian Goetz about the Java Memory Model. One of his points was about lazy initialization which concluded with "don’t use the …
A lot of interesting stuff is going on. More and more (dynamic typed) languages are appearing and getting more attention. Are they better than the Java language?
At the time I’m writing this, Devoxx 2008 is well into it’s second day. Day one was quite interesting, with the major announcement being the release of JavaFX 1.0 …
In a project where i am working on, we needed to show an image and the image should be change when a user would like to do that. For …
Inspired by a blog article by Edwin Biemond, I decided to try it out myself: previewing an PDF document in an image. However, Edwin used jPedal (http://www.jpedal.org/), a commercial …
We were faced by an interesting challenge: our JSF application should display boilerplate text – titles, button labels, prompt, error messages, tool tips etc, – in a context …
Writing unit-tests should be part of your development process whether you write them before or after the actual coding I leave that up to you. On of the pitfalls …
Recently I have been doing quite some work with WebServices – calling them and implementing them, from and in both PL/SQL and Java. And in conjunction with BPEL and …
A table without single-column primary key, Java developers don’t like them because it’s more work than just putting @Id on a field. When you’re using Hibernate Annotations you might …
Op dinsdag 20 mei 2008, bijna een maand voordat in New Orleans de ODTUG 2008 van start gaat, heb je de mogelijkheid om alvast te horen wat deze negen …
For a customer with an interesting business we had to build a web application that has a RIA front end, displays data on maps, authenticates thru a web service …
What I mean with a meta data driven user interface is an application whose appearance and behavior is managed by a special set of data that is stored in …
Op 15 en 16 juni vond in Antwerpen de SpringOne conferentie plaats. Dit event bestond uit vier keynotes, zes zogenaamde university talks, veertig (parallelle) presentaties en 48 sprekers. Dit …
In summer 2000 I started in the Field Service development team of Oracle’s eBusiness Suite (http://www.oracle.com/applications/service/srvonl_cont.html). The web form Dispatch Center contains four Java applets. One of them is …
Op 15 en 16 juni aanstaande wordt de SpringOne conferentie gehouden in Antwerpen. Dit is de eerste Europese conferentie die specifiek op het Spring Framework betrekking heeft. Het evenement …
Spring AOP offers a wealth of new options in programming as well as designing Java applications. A somewhat more advanced feature is the Hot Swappable Target Source. The concept …
